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B53
world
Thursday, June 25, 2015 www.guardian.co.tt Guardian
NEW YORK---The Swedish
owner of a business that sold
sophisticated malware that pros-
ecutors say corrupted more than
half a million computers in 100
countries was sentenced on Tues-
day to nearly five years in prison.
US District Judge P Kevin Castel
ordered 25-year-old Alex Yucel to
serve four years and nine months
in prison. Yucel, the owner of the
malicious software Blackshades,
pleaded guilty in February to com-
puter hacking. He also was ordered
to forfeit $200,000.
Prosecutors said Yucel sold and
distributed malware to cybercrim-
inals worldwide from 2010 to April
2014, generating sales of more than
$350,000.
Yucel, arrested in Moldova in
November 2013, became the first
defendant to be extradited from
that country to the United States.
Prosecutors said buyers of the
Blackshades malware sometimes
used it to hijack computers web-
cams and spy on their users. At
other times, the buyers stole per-
sonal files and information, inter-
cepted keystrokes and encrypted
and locked computer data files,
forcing computer owners to pay
ransoms to regain access, the gov-
ernment said.
Prosecutors said several thou-
sand people had paid $40 each to
buy the Blackshades Remote
Access Toll, or RAT, and used it
to break into the computers.
An investigation resulted in the
arrests of nearly 100 people in 13
European countries, the US, Cana-
da and Chile.
The European countries were
identified as Austria, Belgium,
Britain, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia,
Finland, France, Germany, Italy,
Moldova, the Netherlands and
Switzerland.
"This malware victimised thou-
sands of people across the globe
and invaded their lives," US Attor-
ney Preet Bharara said.
"But Yucel s computer hacking
days are now over."
Earlier this year, a former Black-
shades administrator and a cus-
tomer each were sentenced to a
year and a day in prison after
pleading guilty.
Another customer who used the
software to steal financial and other
account information pleaded guilty
and was sentenced to two years in
prison.
A co-creator of the RAT pro-
gramme is awaiting sentencing.
(AP)
Malware owner gets
nearly 5 years in jail LITTLEST FAN
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